November 2010
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Data Visualization Includes Journalism
The below is an interesting infographic from Montreal based Sebastian Pierre, founder of FFunction. The infographic below was done in answer to the question, “What is Data Visualization?”. What we found most interesting about Pierre’s graphic was the converging points of the separate schemes of data. It shows the intersecting points of journalism to new media to data analytics, all operating cohesively and further supporting our claim of all media is still good media, we just need to figure out what role each has to play, as the times change.
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Film Director Burton Uses Twitter to Collaborate on Short Story
Tim Burton, film director extraordinaire, has started a Twitter handle, @BurtonStory, to collaborate with other Twtter users to build a short story about a main character called Stain Boy.
Murdoch’s iPad News Pub is Just Another Form of a Pay Wall – don’t be fooled
In August we reported about Rupert Murdoch’s announcement of an iPad only news publication. His plan then and still now, was that this news publication would have no accompanying web site or printed edition, where the same information could be found. Well, as the launch of the tablet news pub is coming near (early 2011), more media pundits are writing and speculating on this, the latest Murdoch product
Publishers Call Centre Video
Here is a funny little newspaper call centre video to keep you entertained!
SNA’s Classified Conference Keynote: Celebrate the Successes of Newspapers
With today being the start of the SNA Classified Advertising Conference, it was fitting to have it start off with a keynote talk by Larry Maynard, the CEO of NGM Partners, proudly entitled “The Positive Story for your Newspapers Today”
RichardAtDell Speaks at Toronto’s Third Tuesday
I took some time out of my hectic Monday to attend a local Third Tuesday event – yes … it was held on a Monday, but aside from the day of the week irony, I had prepared myself to be enlightened or at least entertained from the planned presentation. This evening’s event was to cover the often discussed, Dell CUSAT (Customer Satisfaction) come back via social media, courtesy of “RichardAtDell” or if we were to use his real name and not his Twitter handle, Richard Binhammer.
Murdoch’s PayWall Not Working – so he’ll just pay you to read his paper
If you have been reading our blog over the past 12 months, you will know that we’ve tried our best to keep you all current on the newspaper publisher paywall discussions. So, with that commitment, we bring you this little tidbit of news. It seems as though Rupert Murdoch has taken to paying folks to pick up the printed version of his newspaper. Let me explain…
eBay’s Group Gift Service a Good Example of Social Commerce
eBay has just taken another leap into online commerce, with the launch of their new service called eBay Group Gifts. The move was no doubt eBay’s way of letting us all know that they plan to ‘stay current’ and further expand out past their auction and classifieds brands, which they are so widely known for.
CBC Edition of Mobile Monday’s at Maars
This week’s Mobile Monday event at Maars focused on some of the neat things that CBC News Group has been doing in the mobile sphere. We were schooled on the CBS mobile product road map by both Danny Mistry (Product Manager, Mobile and Syndication, CBC) and Richard Switzer (Mobile Product Development, CBC).
